Miracle Workers (SCE Books 5-8) - Keith R. A. DeCandido_. [et al.] [124]
Starfleet Quarantine Regulation #471946A, Paragraph 9, Subsection C. Wholly fictional regulation made up by Commander Sonya Gomez on Sarindar in order to end the “sick-out” protest by a group of workers on the subspace accelerator team who objected to a change in their duty assignments by pretending to have Dakota’s Disease (Invincible Book 1).
Starsearcher. Name given to bio-mechanical Omearan exploration ships. Starsearchers bond permanently with a pilot. Several were sent out after a brutal war with the Sarimun some time prior to 2376 in order to seek out new worlds for the Omearans to colonize. If the pilot dies, the ships are supposed to auto-destruct. However, when the pilot Jaldark Keniria discovered that she was dying, she reprogrammed her ship, Friend, to continue to survive after her death (Hard Crash).
Starsearcher 7445. See Friend.
Stern College. Institute of higher learning located in New York on Earth. Rabbi Rachel Gilman is a professor there (The Belly of the Beast).
Stevens, Fabian. Noncommissioned Starfleet engineer assigned to the U.S.S. da Vinci as a tactical systems specialist. Stevens was formerly assigned to Deep Space 9 and the U.S.S. Defiant (“Starship Down” [DS9]). Stevens’ parents operate a shuttle service in the Rigel Colonies (Cold Fusion). Stevens found a planet in the Eerlik system with an atmosphere that would render the da Vinci undetectable by sensors if they went into a low orbit; this proved a useful hiding place while the da Vinci effected repairs from an attack by the Senbolma. He later wrote a program based on Bart Faulwell’s design to take over the computer systems on the Senbolma (Fatal Error). Faulwell is also Stevens’s roommate (Hard Crash). Stevens took a particular interest in the salvage of the Constitution class U.S.S. Defiant when the da Vinci was assigned to salvage it from interphase, since he had served on one of that ship’s successors. When the Tholians fired on the da Vinci while salvaging the Defiant, Stevens took the tactical station (Interphase Book 1). Afterward, he took the science station while waiting to see if the Tholians would attack again. His attempt to prematurely reopen the rift into interphase with the da Vinci’s deflector dish did not succeed (Interphase Book 2). Stevens was surprised when he was approached for a one-night liaison by Lt. Commander Domenica Corsi on the da Vinci, though he was less surprised when she assured him it would not be an ongoing thing. He was equally surprised to learn that Nog, whom he had last seen as a cadet on Deep Space 9, was now a junior-grade lieutenant and DS9’s chief operations officer (Cold Fusion). Stevens first appeared in “Starship Down” [DS9]. He was given a first name in The Belly of the Beast.
sub-overseer. Rank in Androssi society given to the second-in-command of a ship (Cold Fusion).
subspace accelerator. Device that can be used to shunt objects into orbit from a planet’s surface using a brief warp pulse. Commander Sonya Gomez did a paper on SAs when she was at the Academy. The SA constructed on planet Sarindar was a two-hundred-meter-in-diameter concave dish through which chimerium could be fed via a tubing system. The dish would then generate an annular confinement beam that would clear a path of vacuum through the planet’s atmosphere, through which payloads would be sent via an eight-nanosecond high-warp pulse. The team that constructed the device consisted of various member